The other week I started my dive from Bannerfish Bay – right outside the dive centre and, within 7 min I was above the swim through at Mashraba dive site. For those of you that have no idea what I’m talking about, this would normally take around 25 min assuming no current of course. Hence

What is sidemount and why should you give it a try? Sidemount diving is a diving configuration where divers wear one, two (recreational sidemount) or more (technical sidemount) tanks on their sides instead of mounted on the back (backmount). Sidemount tanks lie parallel to the body, below the shoulders and along the hips. Since the